ABSTRACT
This chapter summarises the relationship of PMA with image-schemas, that is, arguing the association of the former for the culmination of the latter, making of these also dependent on implicit motives and non-conceptual but conscious impressions of the overall felt awareness that is dissipated through the individual’s body while comprehending the dynamics of relations between objects in her environment (world-images), of object relations within self (inner images), and of her self as an object (the ‘self’ as an image) relating to others, considering also the effects of how she is internalised in the others that relate to her self (that is, [re]imagined as ‘gestated’ within an other, also by the operation of the inner images this other carries and uses to [re]imagine her self). Finally, it illustrates how image-schemas ground the conceptualisation of the physicality of the body, using as examples the ‘container’, the ‘path’, and the ‘part-whole’ image-schemas, while anchoring the imaged resemblance of the body to a vessel for lived intensities, to be preserved in its integrity while it moves through its ever-changing cycles of being one, becoming oneness, and returning to one’s unity again, transiting over the multiplicity and collectivity in and of it.
